#AfterAfghanistan: Shabaab is winning. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal. Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Director, South & Central Asia, Hudson Institute
May 10, 2022, 12:29 AM
Photo: Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a Somalia-based Islamic insurgence group active in East Africa and Yemen.
SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a photogaph taken 12 October 2013 and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 15 October, Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) patrol the streets of the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. October 16 marks two years since the Kenya Defense Force first intervened in Somalia under Operation Linda Nchi - meaning Operation Protect the Country in Kiswahili - following a series of kidnappings and cross-border raids along the Kenya-Somalia border by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Al Shabaab. KDF forces were fully integrated into the African Union mission on 22 February 2012 and saw them capture the strategically and economiclly important port city of Kismayo from Al Shabaab in early October 2012 after a sustained 6-month advance across southern Somalia. AU/UN IST PHOTO / RAMADAN MOHAMED HASSAN.
The person who associated a work with this deed [AMISOM Public Information] has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a photogaph taken 12 October 2013 and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 15 October, Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) patrol the streets of the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. October 16 marks two years since the Kenya Defense Force first intervened in Somalia under Operation Linda Nchi - meaning Operation Protect the Country in Kiswahili - following a series of kidnappings and cross-border raids along the Kenya-Somalia border by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Al Shabaab. KDF forces were fully integrated into the African Union mission on 22 February 2012 and saw them capture the strategically and economiclly important port city of Kismayo from Al Shabaab in early October 2012 after a sustained 6-month advance across southern Somalia. AU/UN IST PHOTO / RAMADAN MOHAMED HASSAN.
The person who associated a work with this deed [AMISOM Public Information] has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
#AfterAfghanistan: Shabaab is winning. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal. Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Director, South & Central Asia, Hudson Institute